Global Warming Webography
NCDC: Global Warming
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/globalwarming.html
This site contains brief answers to 10 of the most frequently asked questions concerning global warming.
EPA Global Warming Site
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/
As the name suggests this site is produced by the Environmental Protection Agency. The information provided ranges from general to more specific.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/
The IPCC is made up of members of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). “The role of the IPCC is to assess the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change. It does not carry out new research nor does it monitor climate related data. It bases its assessment mainly on published and peer reviewed scientific technical literature.”
Global Warming
http://www.skepticism.net/global_warming/
This site provides links to articles that are skeptical of the more extreme claims made by some in the scientific community concerning climate change. The articles are written by a wide variety of people.
Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg15n2g.html
A lengthy article by Richard S. Lindzen who is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Lindzen describes how relying on experimental models to predict actual events can be dangerous.
Sierra Club Global Warming Home Page
http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/
This site contains information on the health effects of global warming, how wildlife habitat may be impacted, and how using energy more efficiently can help solve the problem.
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
http://www.co2science.org/
The Center was created to “disseminate factual reports and sound commentary on new developments in the world-wide scientific quest to determine the climatic and biological consequences of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content.” The site contains, among other things, mini-reviews of journal articles, instructions for classroom experiments, and a dictionary of terms related to global change.
New Scientist Planet Science Global Warming Report
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/global/faq.html
Lists answers to Frequently Asked Questions concerning the science and politics of global warming. Much of the information concerns the Kyoto Summit that took place in 1997.
